PSY100H1 Chapter 8: chapter 8 summary
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our thoughts guide much of our behaviour as we problem solve, make decisions try to make sense of events going on around us. Cognition- mental activity such as thinking or representing information. there are two types of representations: analogical and symbolic. Analogical representation- a mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of an object; it is analogous to the object ie family tree represent the relation between family. Symbolic representation- a abstract mental representation that does not correspond to the physical features of an object or idea. Ie knowing the word violin represents an instrument. roger shepard- made experiment where participants were asked to view letters and determine if they are mirror image or normal. found out took participants longer depending on how much the letter was rotated. primary visual cortex was activate during demonstration of analogical representation. Categorization- grouping thing together based on shared properties.
